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Spanish women declare emergency over gender-based violence
Nationwide mass protests were held today in Spain to call out the lack of political response to, and media coverage of, the deaths of several women from sexual and domestic violence.
The outrage was fuelled following a series of high-profile rape cases and the deaths this summer of 19 women, killed by current or former partners.
According to data collected by the Spanish government, 1,017 women have been killed by domestic violence since 2003, with 42 murders this year so far.
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